qms6thgrade - Understanding Day 5

Digital Information

Unit EQ: How do computers make students or employees more productive

LEQ: Is the transistor the greatest invention in the last 50 years?

Activating Strategies: take out paper and list things that have transistors in them?(link to video)

Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary: Write a sentence using the following words: Digital, Binary, Analog, Information. Call on 2 students.

Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:

Digital Information

Digitial vs Analog * Analog, varying voltages, volumes, rotations

Analog - uses dials for output - clock with hands, speedometer
Digital - Digit means #.
- Divided up into specific increments and assigned #s -
- Digital clockdigital speedometer

Microprocessors: Transistor is a switch without moving parts.

Fetch, Decode, Execute Mention how math lab shows how slow we are!
Transistors are made from silicon. Silicon is a semiconductor. A material whose conductivity can change.
Scale of Transistors : How big is a human hair? About 100 microns in diameter. That means a transistoris just 0.045 microns wide. Transistor Timeline
Digital Information
Binary Code
- Bits zeros and ones
- show CAT binary overhead slide
Pixels(video)
- Dots in a digital image.
- Show rollerblade overhead

Summarizing Strategies:
Moodle Quiz #2